Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Jul 6, 1999, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)

Expired

Jul 6, 1999, 6:20 PM EDT

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

County Laurens County, GA

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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TTAA00 KATL 062146 RRA
SVRATL
GAC175-062220-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
545 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 620 PM EDT

* AT 544 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWTON... MOVING SOUTHWEST AT LESS
  THAN 5 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS.

DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR
LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-1133 @AT
EXTENSION 2 0 4.

In the hours before

GAZ038-039-050-051-060>062-072>076-082>086-094>098-105>113-062045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1146 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. IT INCLUDES AN
AREA EAST OF A LINE NEAR ELBERTON IN ELBERT COUNTY TO MACON...
ALBANY TO WAYCROSS AND SAINT SIMMONS ISLAND.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING WESTWARD THROUGH THE
FLOW... ALONG WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL INCREASE THE
CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MIGHT REACH SEVERE
LIMITS BY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

GAZ038-039-050-051-060>062-072>076-082>086-094>098-105>113-062045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1146 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. IT INCLUDES AN
AREA EAST OF A LINE NEAR ELBERTON IN ELBERT COUNTY TO MACON...
ALBANY TO WAYCROSS AND SAINT SIMMONS ISLAND.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING WESTWARD THROUGH THE
FLOW... ALONG WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL INCREASE THE
CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MIGHT REACH SEVERE
LIMITS BY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.